„From Mind to Brain“: Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary research field to study the mind, intelligence and the brain.
Within the hexagon of the main research fields Psychology, Neuroscience, Linguistics, Humanities, Philosophy, Education, Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence and Economics, research in Cognitive Science deepens the understanding from mind to brain, from behaviour to neurophysiological phenomena, from culture, art and social thinking to their brain based underpinnings.
Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience combines different scientific research areas in which the structure and functioning of nervous systems are examined.
Due to the variety of methods used, neuroscientific research is conducted by scientists from many different disciplines such as physiology, psychology, medicine, biology, computer science, or mathematics together with related scientific fields such as information technology or robotics.
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Current Research Projects
We are the host institution to many research projects funded by the University of Vienna and (inter-)national third-party funding agencies.
FWF
Die Mikrophänomenologie zwischenleiblicher Synergiepraktiken
Period: March 2020 - March 2023
Principal investigators: Mag. Dr. Michael Kimmel
Funding program: FWF - Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
WWTF
A novel approach to investigate multi-modal attractiveness in humans and animals
Period: June 2019 - May 2022
Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Dott. Leonida Fusani, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Helmut Leder
Funding program: WWTF - Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds
Externe Kooperationspartner: Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien
Involved fields: Cognitive Science, Empirical Aesthetics, Cognitive Biology
Project Website: Comparative Aesthetics
FWF
Die Rolle des Opiatsystems bei Empathie für Schmerz
Period: May 2019 - May 2022
Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Claus Lamm, Mag.Dr. Markus Rütgen, Isabella Wagner, Georgia Silani
Funding program: FWF - Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Involved fields: Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Neuropsychopharmacology
WWTF
Convergent evolution of the social brain? A comparative dog-human fMRI approach | EVOSOCBRAIN
Period: October 2019 - September 2022
Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Claus Lamm, Mag. Dr. Ludwig Huber, DI Dr. Christian Windischberger
Funding program: WWTF
External partners: Veterinärmedizinische Universität, Medizinische Universität Wien
Involved fields: Cognitive Science, Cognitive Biology, Neuroscience
WWTF
A novel approach to investigate multi-modal attractiveness in humans and animals
Period: June 2019 - May 2022
Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Leonida Fusani, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Helmut Leder
Funding program: Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds (WWTF)
ÖAW
AI-supported adaptive serious gaming
Period: October 2017 - September 2020
Principal investigators: DI Barbara Göbl, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Slunecko,
Funding program: ÖAW DOC Team
Involved fields: Cultural anthropology, Cognitive science
ÖAW
Difficulty and strategies in emotion regulation
Period: October 2017 - September 2020
Principal investigators: Dayana Hristova, M.Sc., Dr. Michael Kimmel, Univ.-Prof. Thomas Slunecko,
Funding program: ÖAW DOC Team
Involved fields: Cultural anthropology, Cognitive science
FWF
Embodied Creativity in Dyadic Interaction
Period: June 2015 - (preliminary December 2017) prolonged and running
Principal investigator(s): Dr. Michael Kimmel
Funding program: FWF Stand-alone Projects
Involved fields: Cognitive Ethnography (Empirical Phenomenology, Joint Action/Interaction, Embodied Cognition)
FWF
The Cultural Eye / The Gendered Eye
Period: September 2013 - (preliminary Mai 2017) pro-longed and running
Principal investigator(s): Univ.-Prof. Raphael Rosenberg
Funding program: FWF Stand-alone Projects
Involved fields: Art History, Psychology
Publications
Hristova, D., Jovicic, S., Göbl, B., & Slunecko, T. (2021). The Social Media Game: How Gamification Shapes Our Social Media Engagement. In R. Dillon (Ed.), The Digital Gaming Handbook (pp. 63-94). CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group.
Haiduk, F., Quigley, C., & Fitch, W. T. S. (2020). Song Is More Memorable Than Speech Prosody: Discrete Pitches Aid Auditory Working Memory. Frontiers in Psychology. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586723
Martin, L., White, M. P., Pahl, S., May, J., & Wheeler, B. W. (2020). Neighbourhood greenspace and smoking prevalence: Results from a nationally representative survey in England. Social Science & Medicine. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113448
Peschl, M. F. (2020). Theory U: From potentials and co-becoming to bringing forth emergent innovation and shaping a thriving future ; On what it means to "learn from the future as it emerges". In O. Gunnlaugson, & W. Brendel (Eds.), Individual Approaches in Theory U (Vol. 2, pp. 65-112). Trifoss Business Press. Advances in Presencing Vol. 2
Markham, A., & Grosse-Wentrup, M. (2020). Measurement Dependence Inducing Latent Causal Models. Paper presented at Conference on Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence, Unknown.
Hartmann, H., Rütgen, M., Riva, F., & Lamm, C. (2020). Another's pain in my brain: No evidence that placebo analgesia affects the sensory-discriminative component in empathy for pain. NeuroImage. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117397
Kawai, C., Lukacs, G., & Ansorge, U. (2020). Polarities influence implicit associations between colour and emotion. Acta Psychologica, 209, [103143]. doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103143
Pomper, U., Schmid, R., & Ansorge, U. (2020). Continuous, Lateralized Auditory Stimulation Biases Visual Spatial Processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, [1183]. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01183
narps (2020). Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams. Nature, 582(7810), 84-88. doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2314-9